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Friday, January 13, 2017

We had a brief walk walk along a couple of sections of the Cumbria coast path. One at Foxfield and one at Silecroft. The weather was chilly and extremely windy but wonderful all the same.
I just took a few photographs to remember the day by and show them below.

No words, just images.

Foxfield

View towards Coniston fells.

View across the Duddon Estuary, due to be engulfed in huge pylons. Shame on National Grid.

Into the sun at Silecroft. Wonderful sense of wide open space, sounds and smells of the sea.

18 comments:

Great pics Alan, it'll be a shame when/if the pylons appear. I like you think the windmills out at sea are ok...so often its the infrastructure required to erect the things on the hills which is the real problem.A nice quiet part of Cumbria, glad you enjoyed it.

Hi Al. We've watched the turbines grow in numbers and must admit that we was a bit shocked at just how big the whole thing has become. However, saying that, if they keep them off the hills we will be ecstatic. We will be very disappointed if the pylons get the go ahead. We can't keep on destroying landscapes for profit. We don't have enough beauty in our small land.

You're ahead of me here. My next section will take me to Kirkby in Furness, but I'm now waiting for a decent weather window and clear diary. I reckon the forthcoming sections are perhaps the best part of the CCP and I don't want to walk them in poor weather.

Thanks Dawn. I know the cost of laying cables underground is far more expensive than pylons but these pylons are going to be enormous. Sometimes the expensive option is the right one. The excuse of cost being more important than what people have to live with forever cannot be allowed to take the high ground.

I've wondered for a long time about the cost argument when it comes to burying cables underground, and whether it actually stands up in the long-term when you factor in the number of times cables are brought down by high winds, particularly in exposed areas, and then have to be reinstated.

I don't think we always take a long view where infrastructure is concerned.

Hi Dave, I have no idea what cost impact time has over either installations, but I'm sure underground or under water cables will have issues too. I get a bit wound up that cost seems to be the most important issue with big jobs like this and they always use the excuse that "the customer will have to pay in the end and bills will rise" to get what they want. Well they seem to find enough money to pay off rich landowners where wind farms are concerned so I hope that the local protests prevail here.